Third Meeting, Lisbon, November 1999
Agenda and
Contributions
PROPOSED ORGANIZATION OF WORK
Monday 22
09.00-10.00 Registration of participants
10.00-10.30 Expert Group: Goals and expectations
IBGE, NSI of Portugal and ECLAC
10.30-12.30 Session 1: Work underway by members of the Group on porverty line methods
Changes in patterns of consumption and their effect on components of the poverty line. Kathleen Short (Bureau of the Census, USA)
Opções Metodológicas para a estimação de linhas de indigência e de pobreza no Brasil. Sonia Rocha (IPEA, Brazil)
Comments:
11.30-11.45 Coffee Break
The effect of regional heterogeneity on the definition of thresholds: The case of Brazil. Ricardo Henríques (IPEA, Brazil)
Regional differences on patterns of consumption in Peru. Alberto Padilla (INEI, Peru)
Comments:
Lunch
14.30-17.30 Session 1: cont.
Poverty and low income measurement in Canada: Recent analyses and future directions. Alison Hale (Statisitcs Canada)
Measurement of permanent income as an alternative to current income in the measurement of poverty. Luis Beccaría (SIEMPRO, Argentina)
Comments:
16.00-16.15 Coffee Break
Equivalence scales: A brief review of concept and methods. Fernando Medina (CEPAL)
Comments:
20.30 Dinner offered by ECLAC
Tuesday 23
09.30-12.30 Session 2: European and international experience to move towards common practices in the measurement of poverty
The EU approach to poverty measurement. Pieter Everaers (EUROSTAT)
The Canberra Group experience on household income measurement (EUROSTAT and ECLAC)
Comments:
Pobreza e exclusão social em Portugal: Uma perspectiva longitudinal. Lidia Barreiros (NSI, Portugal)
Coffee Break
Contrast between objective and subjective measurement of poverty. Carmen Ureña (INE, España)
Madior Fall (INSEE, France)
Comments:
Lunch
14.30-17.30 Session 3: Use of poverty statistics in the design and monitoring of poverty alleviation policies
Application of the newly developed Budget Standards in Australia. Judy Schneider (ABS, Australia)
Poverty measurement as an instrument to design, monitor and evaluate health policy in Chile. Reinaldo Ruiz (MIDEPLAN, Chile)
Indexes of social lag in the communities of Mexico. José Vences (INEGI, Mexico)
Comments:
16.00–16.15 Coffee Break
Ethnic poverty and social vulnerability data sources from the Census of the United States and the American Community Survey. John Reed (Bureau of the Census, USA)
Monitoring rights and goals for children. Alberto Minujin (UNICEF)
Comments:
Wednesday 24
09.30-14.00 Session 4: Poverty and its relation with other social indicators
Statistics on social exclusion: The EU approach. Lene Mejer (EUROSTAT)
Michael Ward (World Bank)
(South Africa)
Comments:
11.30–12.00 Coffee Break
12.00–13.15 Session 5: The future agenda for the Rio Group - Discussion
(IBGE and ECLAC)
13.45–14.00 Session 6: Poverty and social exclusion survey of Britain. Peter Townsend (United Kingdom)
